Midgard (Miðgarðr)

The people’s world is made from what came out of the gap. Grímnismál and Gylfaginning both say the gods built Miðgarðr for the sons of men from the brows of the giant Ymir, and the entry describes it as a wall against the giants. The name, often rendered “middle enclosure”, is older than the Eddas: a Viking Age runestone uses it for the world of men, and other Germanic languages have their own forms of it.